Luxury Dining in Valletta
Those who read my Malta Diary regularly may have often wondered whether this journalist has completely lost control of his mind. I have written a load of outrageous articles in the past, but this one appears to be the real and indisputable proof that his mental capacities have gone off the trolley rails once and for all.
Restaurants in the capital city Valletta have been proven to provide a better luxury meal at a lesser expensive price than many other leading world capitals, towns and cities around the world.
Ok, ok, he has probably been paid off to write this nonsense and line his own pockets with cash, free meals, etc; as he is Government friendly all doors have been opened up to him. Nothing is further from the truth. I have NEVER received a single cent or favour for my writing; I write because I want to express my individuality and I write what I feel makes sense and is real and relates the virtues (and where necessary the blemishes) of the country of my birth, my pride and joy and one of the smallest countries in the world – Malta and Gozo.
Valletta Restaurant
No restaurant names wil be mentioned in this article to ensure I am NOT currying favour to any of them, nor with THE GOVERNMENT and NOR with the Malta Tourism Authority which has not expressed one single word of thanks that I have written over nine years in the interests of our tourism and for which I have been acclaimed overseas – but totally ignored by our Authorities.
First, I will take you back 70 or so years when I was aged seven. My father Frank had resigned from the British Armed Forces and had become a school master and was later appointed as General Secretary of the Malta Union of Teachers with its offices in Valetta.
During my school holidays he regularly took me to “help him” at his office – to keep me out of my mother’s hair and prevent continual litigations with my younger brother, Edward.
Lunch was always a treat at many of the aged restaurants, providing traditional Maltese dishes like fried rabbit, oven-baked chicken, Maltese stewed sausages and others – naturally always with lashings of fried chips! The menu never changed except for the lampuki fish season and other very singular occasions such as Christmas.
Roast Dinner Served On A Beautiful Culinary Board
This was a time when such restaurants were run by workmen for workmen. Taking the family out to lunch or dinner was financial impossible and inconceivable. The well-heeled had their pallets fed by vastly expensive restaurants, far from the presence of the mass riff-raff.
The majority of my articles have been written to revive our glorious Maltese cultural, historical and highly valuable past. This one reflects setting all that aside. Out with the old restaurants and in with the new!
A new Global Food Index has ranked 150 cities around the world for the excellence of their food presentations in relation to prices charged; this puts Malta in a higher ranking than Rome and Barcelona, Venice, Chicago and Buenos Aires!
Fresh chemical-free vegetables, low calories, high protein factor, virtually no fried vegetable oils and sprinklings of olive oil.
Featured in a great number of publications around the world from CNN to the New York Times and acknowledged as an international pivot for restaurant preparations, amazingly enough, NOT ONE Italian city – revered word-wide as the capitals of eating out – managed to better Malta!
I am speechless…
If I was to be asked which I would prefer, take me back to the old fries, done in vegetable oils with lashings of spuds and fresh Maltese bread. Now that is a real meal.
My view of today’s presentations – not a palate treat but a mathematical concoction of 23% calories, 38.1% protein, 1% vegetable oil and 0.5% of salt. We will soon be ordering Menu No 1 for me please, No 2 for my wife and No 4 for my two kids.
How incredible boring. You can stick that!
Potato bake
ALBERT FENECH
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MALTESE SAYING
“The eye eats first”
The mouth eats the plate contents first before the food touches the mouth.
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